Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to file
Participle: filed
Gerund: filing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | file |
| you | file |
| he;she;it | files |
| we | file |
| you | file |
| they | file |
Perfect
| I | have filed |
| you | have filed |
| he;she;it | has filed |
| we | have filed |
| you | have filed |
| they | have filed |
Past
| I | filed |
| you | filed |
| he;she;it | filed |
| we | filed |
| you | filed |
| they | filed |
Pluperfect
| I | had filed |
| you | had filed |
| he;she;it | had filed |
| we | had filed |
| you | had filed |
| they | had filed |
Future
| I | will file |
| you | will file |
| he;she;it | will file |
| we | will file |
| you | will file |
| they | will file |
Future Perfect
| I | will have filed |
| you | will have filed |
| he;she;it | will have filed |
| we | will have filed |
| you | will have filed |
| they | will have filed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | file |
| you | file |
| he;she;it | file |
| we | file |
| you | file |
| they | file |
Perfect
| I | have filed |
| you | have filed |
| he;she;it | have filed |
| we | have filed |
| you | have filed |
| they | have filed |
Imperfect
| I | filed |
| you | filed |
| he;she;it | filed |
| we | filed |
| you | filed |
| they | filed |
Pluperfect
| I | had filed |
| you | had filed |
| he;she;it | had filed |
| we | had filed |
| you | had filed |
| they | had filed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would file |
| you | would file |
| he;she;it | would file |
| we | would file |
| you | would file |
| they | would file |
Perfect
| I | would have filed |
| you | would have filed |
| he;she;it | would have filed |
| we | would have filed |
| you | would have filed |
| they | would have filed |
Imperative
| you | file |
| we | Let's file |
| you | file |
Verbs conjugated like 'file'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'file'
bile,
faile,
fife,
fike,
filet,
filk,
fill,
film,
fine,
fire,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "to place (papers) in consecutive order for future reference," 1473, from M.Fr.
filer "string documents on a wire for preservation or reference," from
fil "thread, string," from L.
filum "thread," from PIE base
*gwhis-lom (cf. Armenian
jil "sinew, string, line," Lith.
gysla "vein, sinew," O.C.S.
zila "vein"). The notion is of documents hung up on a line like drying laundry. Methods have become more sophisticated, but the word has stuck. The noun first attested in Eng. in the military sense, "line or row of men," 1598, from M.Fr.
filer in the sense of "spin out (thread), march in file." The noun meaning "arranged collection of papers" is from 1626; computer sense is from 1954.
2. From Old French fil (“thread”), from Latin fīlum (“thread”). Doublet of filum.
Verbs referencing "file"
Esperanto
fajli, Sanskrit
पिंशति.
Sample Sentences
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[...] and legs we see in every possible variety of twist, doing, but amusing themselves ? What are the fifty newspapers, which those precocious urchins are bawling down the street, and which are kept filed within, what are they but amusements ? Not vapid, waterish amusements, but good strong stuff; dealing in round abuse and blackguard names; pulling off the roofs of private houses, as the Halting [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)